1. Preliminary research - Thinking about whether our project is beneficial to the world
Before the official start of the project, we conducted on-site visits to the China Industrial Museum, Liaoning Bohai Shipbuilding College, and Liaoning Shunda Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Through personal exploration, interviews with relevant groups, and distribution of questionnaires, we conducted surveys to truly carefully consider whether our project is beneficial to the world. In the preliminary research, explore the problems that need to be solved in our project, and identify areas that need to be noted and gradually improved during the project implementation and application process.
(1) The mutual influence between projects and society: We conduct preliminary research on different populations through various forms, gathering different perspectives to improve our project, while also considering how to better apply our project. For example, interviewing workers can help us understand the main causes of metal corrosion in other existing oceans, and we will focus on this when designing projects; We consider the potential harm that the project may cause to the ocean and marine organisms, and prevent this by designing suicide switches.
(2) Stakeholder guidance: The opinions of the audience, relevant workers, and relevant engineers respectively guide the purpose, application process, and design process of our project. The audience's perspective has taught us what kind of problems our project should solve, and the views of relevant workers have made us aware of the potential problems in our project application process and allowed us to make corrections in the early stages. The views of relevant engineers are beneficial for us to better consider other areas that need improvement when designing the project.
2. During the project cycle - gather multiple perspectives, improve the project, and respond to existing issues
After determining the general direction of the project, we consulted relevant experts and scholars, and communicated with universities such as Sichuan University about potential issues with our project. Based on this, we made corresponding improvements to our project. We also consulted with the Agriculture and Water Affairs Bureau of Chenghua District in Chengdu for suggestions to make our project accountable to the world and beneficial to humanity.
(1) Professional feedback drives our project improvement: After consulting with Zhou Yongjin from Dalian Institute of Materialization, we were inspired to design a suicide switch.
(2) When communicating with universities such as Sichuan University, we also received a lot of inspiration for improving the project, which has led to the development of our project towards a better place.
3. Human practice closed-loop: goal (metal corrosion protection), exploration (understanding the current situation and related methods), idea (using biofilm), improvement (consulting professional guidance and audience), testing, feedback, improvement, inspiration (understanding metal corrosion protection again), our project has formed a closed-loop, and we hope that after this cycle, our project will continue to improve.